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		<title>Kerr, Jean -- Essay (1957), &#8220;Introduction,&#8221; Please Don’t Eat the Daisies</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can&#8217;t sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don&#8217;t count).</p>
<br><b>Jean Kerr</b> (1922–2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]<br>Essay (1957), &#8220;Introduction,&#8221; <i>Please Don’t Eat the Daisies</i> 
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		<title>Homer -- The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 11, l. 379 (11.379) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)]</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a time for long tales, but there is also a time for sleep.</p>
<p>[Ὥρη μὲν πολέων μύθων, ὥρη δὲ καὶ ὕπνου.]</p>
<br><b>Homer</b> (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author<br><i>The Odyssey</i> [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 11, l. 379 (11.379) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)] 
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On being asked by King Alcinoüs to continue his tale of journeying to the Land of the Dead.<br><br> 

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0135%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D361#:~:text=%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B7%20%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%20%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD%20%CE%BC%CF%85%CE%B8%CF%89%CE%BD%2C%20%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B7%20%CE%B4%CE%B5%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9%20%CF%85%CF%80%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>“Most eminent king,” said he, “times all must keep,<br>
There’s time to speak much, time as much to sleep."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48895/48895-h/48895-h.htm#:~:text=%E2%80%9Cmost%20eminent%20king%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20he%2C%20%E2%80%9Ctimes%20all%20must%20keep%2C%20there%E2%80%99s%20time%20to%20speak%20much%2C%20time%20as%20much%20to%20sleep.">Chapman</a> (1616)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for talk, a time for rest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A44271.0001.001/1:13?rgn=div1;view=fulltext#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20time%20for%20talk%2C%20a%20time%20for%20rest">Hobbes</a> (1675), l. 362]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>Since yet the early hour of night allows<br>
<span class="tab">Time for discourse, and time for soft repose.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Pope)/Book_XI#:~:text=since%20yet%20the%20early%20hour%20of%20night%20allows%20time%20for%20discourse%2C%20and%20time%20for%20soft%20repose">Pope</a> (1725)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">The time suffices yet<br>
For converse both and sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24269/24269-h/24269-h.htm#:~:text=the%20time%20suffices%20yet%20460%20for%20converse%20both%20and%20sleep">Cowper</a> (1792), l. 460-61]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>Night is the time for converse, night for rest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/7-Eh5oFk6msC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA273&printsec=frontcover">Worsley</a> (1861), st. 54]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">A time there is for speech<br>
Howe'er prolong'd: a time, too, for repose.<br>[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/RgULAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA295&printsec=frontcover">Musgrave</a> (1869), l. 585]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>A time there is for tales -- and a time for sleep!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Nearly_Literal_Translation_of_Homer_s/44YXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA191&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22time%20there%20is%20for%20tales%22">Bigge-Wither</a> (1869), l. 378]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for many words and there is a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1728/1728-h/1728-h.htm#:~:text=there%20is%20a%20time%20for%20many%20words%20and%20there%20is%20a%20time%20for%20sleep">Butcher/Lang</a> (1879)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>Time is for words abundant, and time for sleep maybe.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/VwcOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA203&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22words%20abundant%22">Morris</a> (1887)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for stories and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Odyssey/KYlBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA176&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22a%20time%20for%20stories%22">Palmer</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(Butler)/Book_XI#:~:text=there%20is%20a%20time%20for%20making%20speeches%2C%20and%20a%20time%20for%20going%20to%20bed">Butler</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D361#:~:text=there%20is%20a%20time%20for%20many%20words%20and%20there%20is%20a%20time%20also%20for%20sleep">Murray</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>Surely there is a time for long speaking and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/r8eKFwymHmcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=homer%20odyssey&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22time%20for%20long%20speaking%22">Lawrence</a> (1932)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for story telling; there is <br>
also a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/homer-the-odyssey-800-bce-robert-fitzgerald-tr-1961/page/n161/mode/2up?q=%22time+for+story+telling%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1961)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is a time for many words, and a time for sleeping.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/odysseyofhomermo0000rich/page/178/mode/2up?q=%22time+for+many+words%22">Lattimore</a> (1965)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It's true that there's still time for tales and talk,<br>
yet there is, too, a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/ORyo8qAA-CQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22tales%20and%20talk%22&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover">Mandelbaum</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is a time for many words, a time for sleep as well.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-odyssey_202303/page/260/mode/2up?q=%22time+for+many+words%22">Fagles</a> (1996)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>There is a time for words and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/thenortonantholo0000unse/page/418/mode/2up?q=%22time+for+words%22">Lombardo</a> (2000), l. 389]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is a time for long tales, but there is also a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/U2Jovv1NuMsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22time%20for%20long%20tales%22">DCH Rieu</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>There is a time for words, and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey11.php#anchor_Toc90267982:~:text=there%20is%20a%20time%20for%20words%2C%20and%20a%20time%20for%20sleep">Kline</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>There is a time for long tales, and there is a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/o8dLDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22There%20is%20a%20time%20for%20long%20tales%22">Verity</a> (2016)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>It is a time for many tales, but also <br>
a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/PpJYDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22there%20is%20a%20time%20for%22&printsec=frontcover">Wilson</a> (2017); print text shown]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There's a time for long stories, and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/BUFJDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22there's%20a%20time%20for%20long%22&printsec=frontcover">Green</a> (2018)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">There’s a time<br>
for many stories and a time for sleep.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250312165352/http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/odyssey11html.html#:~:text=among%20all%20men%2C-,there%E2%80%99s%20a%20time,-for%20many%20stories">Johnston</a> (2019), l. 477-78]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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